Today we're taking a look at some of the projects the Wowhead team has recently finished! With a complimentary Level 90 boost in Warlords of Draenor and the options to purchase additional Level 90 Character Boosts, we want to make Wowhead as welcoming as possible for new players.

For a complete list of what we've been working on, check out our What's New page.

Item Finder

We have a lot of advanced filters and data on Wowhead, but want to make the database accessible to new players as well! Our new Item Finder tool breaks down some of the most popular filters for Gear, Consumables, Professions, and Mounts with a user-friendly interface.

For Consumables, Glyphs, and other character enhancements, selecting your level and class or specialization will return appropriate results as well.

For Professions, choose a Profession and then select what type of item you want: things you acquire from gathering professions, reagents, lootable recipes, or craftable things.

Players love mounts, so we've highlighted them on the page as well. Once you click on a mount filter, your search results can be viewed as a text list or gallery of images.

You can easily return to the Item Finder tool by clicking on the red button on the right side of all item search result pages, or if you're encouraged to dig deeper, refine your search with our dozens of filters in the dropdown menu!

Improved Search Results

We've enhanced our basic search results page to show popular results and guides so you can find what you need faster:

The most visited pages for a particular search term are now displayed at the top of the page.

Next to popular results, we've highlighted some of our featured guides by Wowhead staff and users.

The traditional tabs below are now organized by popularity as well.

You can filter a tab's results further from your initial search. Just click on the message at the top of a tab's search results.

Based on feedback, we've also added a Fishing Pools section to the database with basic pool location and catch information. This should help looking up items that only can be caught in certain pools, like Sea Turtle. To take your fishing skills to the next level, check out Els' Extreme Anglin' too.

Today at 4:30 p.m. EST, Activision Blizzard’s management hosted a conference call discussing the company’s results for the last quarter of 2013. According to the Earnings Report released earlier today, WoW subs are at 7.8 million as of December 31st, up from 7.6 million announced at the end of Quarter 3. Blizzard described their 4th-quarter earnings as "better-than-expected."

Another small 5.4.7 PTR build is hitting test servers soon, there are datamined changes to Charge, Disrupting Shout, and Warbringer. There are also more GlueStrings talking about the Level 90 Character Upgrades for Warlords of Draenor.

In addition, there have been a few hotfixes recently for Huolon, Ordos, and the Censer of Eternal Agony.

Blizzard just published a blog on the upcoming end of PvP Season 14--which could end in as little as two weeks. Past end-of-season announcements have been tied to new major patches, so it's reasonable to speculate that Season 14's end will be close to Patch 5.4.7's launch.

Season 15 will begin approximately a week after the end of Season 14.

As for Season 15 Prideful PvP gear, it's ilvl 550 and shares models with Season 14 PvP gear. However, the colors are swapped between factions so there's no faction-exclusive colors anymore.

When browsing Prideful Gladiator items, to see the correct ilvl 550 stats, make sure you're on the PTR domain--these items were datamined last year as ilvl 540, which is what they show on regular live Wowhead.

Blizzard

Blood, sweat, and tears stain the Arena floors and Battleground fields—a grim chronicle of the hard-fought battles many of you have survived. Once again, the time has come for the victorious to be heralded, and champions to be rewarded!Season 14 is coming to an end as early as two weeks from now. On that day, we'll begin the process of determining end-of-season reward eligibility, which could take up to two weeks to complete.Qualifying players should note the following in order to ensure you receive your just rewards:

Please do not transfer your characters to another realm or faction until after Season 14 has ended.

Award distribution for Season 14, including titles and mounts, could take up to two weeks after the season ends, though our goal is to finish in one.

Only players who have a rating of 1,000 or better are considered when calculating rewards.

At the end of the season, Conquest Points will be converted into Honor Points, and any Honor above 4,000 will be converted into in-game currency at a rate of 35 silver per point. There are a few other things to keep in mind once the season ends:

The Honor Points cap will remain at 4,000.

All Season 14 items will have their costs converted into Honor Points equivalent to their previous Conquest Points cost, with the exception of any items that have a rating requirement.

Season 14 items with rating requirements will no longer be available for purchase.

Season 15 Arenas and Rated Battlegrounds will begin approximately one week after the end of Season 14, and all Personal Ratings will be reset at the same time. Also note that Arena and Rated Battleground matches will not be available during the break between seasons. Once Season 15 begins, players will battle for the right to equip Prideful Gladiator gear, the most powerful PvP gear in game to date with an Item Level of 550.Lastly, as of the beginning of Season 14, PvP players no longer needed to join or create an Arena team to compete. You can find more information about this earlier change in our Patch 5.4 Arena Update blog.

This contest is now closed. Giveaway winners have been emailed. Congrats to Kronexivous, Euphyley, Etherdreams, jasontracy, Xrafice, therantris.

Have you ever met someone in Azeroth and wanted to take it offline? MTV's new show, Catfish, might just have the answer--provided you're a World of Warcraft player and a Wowhead user!

Catfish: The TV Show exists to help people who have met online meet face to face for the first time.

Want to know if that Night Elf is as good at getting coffee as she is at killing Garrosh? Who knows, maybe that Paladin who always has your back in 3v3s would be a great wingman in real life? Or maybe you'd really just like to get a beer with your guildmaster?

Whatever the case, they've put up an application for intrepid real life adventurers to check out. What are you waiting for? It's time to meet up out of game!

There are many lasting friendships that started in WoW, and to celebrate that, we're also giving away 3 Iron Skyreaver and 3 Alterac Brew-Pup. To enter to win, just leave a comment below telling us about a great friendship that started in WoW.

Yesterday afternoon we learned that ZAM’s longtime copy editor, Judy Freeman, passed away from lung cancer. Judy had been with ZAM since October 16, 2007.

From the start, Judy worked to clean up the scribbling of our various writers, journalists, and editors. Many of us across the network were fortunate to work with Judy, relying on her expertise to hold us up and shine the brightest light on our creative work. She never wanted to be in the spotlight, but quietly mentored a surprising number of people on the front lines of ZAM News. Chances are if you ever read ZAM news you've read something she touched.

Thank you, Judy, for the time that you spent with us at ZAM. It ended far sooner than we all ever expected.

Several PvP changes in Blizzard's latest PTR notes are present in this build, including changes to Battle Fatigue and the resilience granted from the PvP trinket bonus Fortitude is doubling. The Reins of the Dread Raven Collector's Edition mount is also now more grandly renamed to "Armored Dread Raven."

Prideful Flaskataur should also be up in this upcoming PTR build as well, so people can test out the Season 15 ilvl 550 PvP epics.